In 1919, after a long association with Aborigines in Western Australia, she set up a camp at a siding called Ooldea on the South Australian side of the Nullarbor Plain and stayed there for the next 16 years.

October - December 2004: Drive up to North Western Australia, around the west and south-west coasts, across the Nullarbor Plain, over snowy mountains and up the south-east coast of New South Wales to Sydney;

The most remote wine region in the world, southwest Western Australia is cooled by prevailing winds from both the Indian and Southern oceans and separated from the eastern coast of the continent by the Nullarbor Plain and the Great Victoria Desert.

Aboriginal people have long inhabited the harsh environment of the Nullarbor Plain, but it wasn t until the study of Koonalda in 1956 that contemporary Australians really started to comprehend the extreme age of Aboriginal occupation in this part of Australia.

However, in early November he suffered severe pain in his feet as he crossed the Nullarbor Plain, almost calling his journey off and only continuing with the help of strong painkillers, and was slowed down by the injury.

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